Ukraine's Woes

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (aka-“Porky”) has threatened to hold a referendum on Ukraine’s membership in NATO. 

This is an act of desperation. Porky is scared. He's trying to keep himself relevant, and in office. He’s worried that Putin and Trump will meet and work something out. Bottom line is that Russia has a lot more to offer US as it is, than Ukraine does. Porky knows this very well. That's why he's trying to ratchet up tensions and anti-Russian hysteria with provocations against E. Ukraine. Once reality and serious economic considerations replace maidanist Russophobic delusions and propaganda, Porky's regime will wilt. 
 
Ukraine won't join NATO. Ukraine would have to resolve issues with E. Ukraine and Crimea first. They'd have to either recapture these areas, or give them up officially. NATO won't admit members with unresolved border issues and internal unrest. NATO doesn't want a war with Russia.

With each passing day, it becomes clearer that Russia isn't interested in any invasions. This makes the Kiev junta's position more precarious. If there is no tension between Russia and west, Porky loses, and so do his Polish backers. This is why he's shelling Donetsk again and provoking Russia.

Porky doesn't realize how tenuous his position is. There are more Ukrainians sympathetic to Russia than he thinks. They may tolerate some of his BS, but the moment he turns the country into a NATO base, they will give him hell.

All this shows how pathetic and fake this current Kiev junta is. They're only kept in power by their western bosses. I GUARANTEE you that after Putin and Trump meet, we will see 'early elections' in Ukraine, and someone will take over that is friendlier to Russia. Just watch. Porky knows this. That's why he's killing more people. He sees the writing on the wall.

Ukraine today is an economic basket case with a society that’s on foreign life-support. The fake promises of Maidan have not come to pass, and the lives of Ukrainians are worse off today than they were at the beginning of 2014. Key industries have been mothballed and closed down. The E. Ukrainian industrial base that the country depended on has seceded from Ukraine due to Banderite fervor and threats against ethnic Russians.

EU has done little to help the country except saddle it with un-repayable loans, and the country is being used by the west as a stick to poke the Russian bear.

President Yanukovich’s popularity at the time he was ousted was 44%. Poroshenko’s current popularity stands at 14%.

Unless sane people come to power in Ukraine, and quickly, the country will only slide further into chaos and economic misery, and no amount of anti-Russian paranoia will save it.